Progress Quotes

The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.

I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so.

Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Progress not perfection.

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

It was the only way to progress, to stop.

The feeling that someone owes us something, the pain for the harm that others caused us, etc., stops the inner progress of the soul.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

How can I progress on the Way thanks to every day difficulties.

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.

The [Wal-Mart] corporate culture lagged way behind many other American corporations in terms of making progress on women's issues, and that had a lot to do with being based in northwest Arkansas.

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.